About the Authors

Nathalie Smitz

nsmitz@student.ulg.ac.be

Affiliation Departement of Life Sciences- Conservation Genetics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Cécile Berthouly

Affiliation Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier-le-Lez, France

Daniel Cornélis

Affiliation Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier-le-Lez, France

Rasmus Heller

Affiliation Department of Biology- Bioinformatics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Pim Van Hooft

Affiliation Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Philippe Chardonnet

Affiliation International Foundation for the Conservation of Wildlife (IGF), Paris, France

Alexandre Caron

Affiliations Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier-le-Lez, France, Department Environment and Societies- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, Department of Zoology and Entomology- Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Herbert Prins

Affiliation Tropical Nature Conservation and Vertebrate Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Bettine Jansen van Vuuren

Affiliation Department of Zoology- Centre for Invasion Biology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Hans De Iongh

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Johan Michaux

Affiliations Departement of Life Sciences- Conservation Genetics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations (CBGP), Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier-le-Lez, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS CB DC RH PVH PC JM. Performed the experiments: NS CB RH PVH. Analyzed the data: NS CB RH PVH JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS CB DC RH PVH PC AC HHTP BJVV HHDI JM. Wrote the paper: NS CB DC RH PVH PC AC HHTP BJVV HHDI JM.